Support for grain-binder engines.



H. H. NELSON. l SUPPORT FORV GRAIN BINDER ENGINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25. I9I6.

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SUPPORT FOR GRAIN BINDER ENGINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1915.v

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SUPPORT FOR GRAIN-BINDER ENGINES.

Lainate.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

Application led March 25, 1916. Serial No. 86,689.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY H. NELSON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Roselawn, in the county of Newton and Sta-te of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Grain-Binder Engines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to improvements in supports for grain binder engines, the athas required the employment of a skilled mechanic, and the location of which prohibits the use of a detachable transportation truck commonly and desirably used for transporting the binder along roads and from one field to another, etc., which supports, moreover, are intended to be and practically are a permanently iixed member of the binder.

The object of my invention broadly stated is an engine support for binders, the construction of which is such that it may be easily and quickly attached to and detached from the frame work, diifering as they do in the several binders upon the market, by any person of ordinary intelligence not a mechanic, and which is adapted to be so located that it provides no obstruction against the use of their transportation trucks, and this especially when provided with a road truck.

A further object of my invention is to provide such a support with sectional members, the construction of which is such as to adapt and occupy a minimum of space for shipment and storage that they may not only be quickly assembled, but adjusted to differing machines and rigidly secured in their operative position' for supporting the engine, for operating a grain binder.

With these ends in view, my invention finds embodiment in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts by which the said objects and certain other objects are attained,

all as hereinafter fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims. In said drawings: Figure 1 illustrates in side elevation the support in which my invention finds its embodiment, secured in its operative position to the frame work of a. grain binder.

Fig. 2 is a detail top plan view of the support and the Vengine thereon for a binder in their operative position.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the bar or post forming a part of the support for connecting it with the top and bottom bars of the binder.

Fig. t is a verticalv section taken on the line M of' Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a detail section of the opposite end of the support taken on the line 5 -5 of Fig. 7

Fig. 6 is a detail section taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 4i. Fig. 7 is a vertical section taken onthe line 7 7 of Fig. 5, and i Fig. 8 is a detail side elevation partly in section, taken on the line 8 8 of Fig. 5.

Similar characters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to Fig. 1 it is first noted that practically every grain binder upon the market has its frame provided at one side with a curved bar 9, a horizontal bottom bar 10 and an arch bar 11, supported and connected as shown in the drawings, the arch bar 11 of which latter bar among other things provides a support for and properly locates the seat for the driver, and may be for the supporting hood 12 covering the elevator of the machine.

In carrying out my invention one end of the support for an engine is provided with an upright bar 13, the upper end of which is removably clamped to the bent top bar 11 of the frame of the binder by means of a plate 14C through which and through the bar 13 passes bolts 15-15, tightened for clamping the bar 13 to the arch bar by means of nuts 16-16 preferably provided with washers, 17, the lower end of the bar 12 being likewise clamped to the bottom bar 10 of the frame of the machine by means of a plate 18, bolts 19 passed through the bar 13, and the plate 18, and tightened by means of nuts 20 and washers 21, the perforations in the bar 13 for the passage therethrough of the bolts 15 and 19 being preferably in the form of elongated slots 22, as a means providing for the vertical adjustment of the bar to adapt it to variations in the distance between the frame bars 10 and 11, and also when as in some instances the form of the arch bar l1 varies as they sometimes do between the machines of differing manufacturers.

Projecting laterally from and at a right angle to the upright bar or post 13 is a supporting bar 23 to the end of which adjacent the bar 13 (see Figs. 4 and 6) is secured an angle bar 24 by means of anut bolt 25, and in turn secured to the bar 13 by means of a nut bolt 26 passing through the. angle bar 24 and through an elongated slot 27 in the bar 13.

AToward the youter end of the bar 23 is secured the upper end of a brace bar 27 by means of a nut bolt 28, the lower portion of which bar 27 is curved as shown at 29, and has its end secured by a nut bolt 30 toward the lower end of the upright bar 13, the bar 23 being provided with a plurality of perforations, as indicated at 31, for the bolt 28 in order that the brace bar may be shifted to adjust it to the position to which the bar 23 may be vertically adjusted on the upright 13.

The angle of the brace bar together with its bend providing a space preventing the obstruction of the transmission sprocket, which in some binders is so located that it occupies a position in part between the upright 13 and the brace bar 27.

The bar 23, it will now be observed furnishes a base support for one end of skids 32-32 commonly accompanying and with which engines for binders are ordinarily equipped, the opposite ends of which skids are supported as indicated in the drawings upon a supporting bar 33, extending parallel to the bar 23.

The skids for the purposes of my invention being provided with hook-like bolts 34-34 passing through bolt holes with which such skids are usually provided, and removably clamped to the bar 33 by means of nuts 35 and washers 36.

The bar 33 is supported from the arch bar 9 of the frame of the binder by means of a clamp, to one jaw 37 of which the bar 33 is secured by means of nut bolts 38-38 passing through the jaw 37 and through slots l39 in the bar 33, which are elongated to provide for the longitudinal adjustment of the bar toward and from the frame of the binder, which jaw 37 of the clamp is connected with the opposing jaw 40 by means of nut bolts 41-41 passing through both jaws and for tightening the clamp in its operative position on the curved bar 9, and which also provide a means for the vertical adjustment of the supporting bar 33 with reference to the frame of the binder.

Jaw 40 is preferably provided with an arm 42 to provide (see Fig. 1) a support for a battery, gasolene tank or other suitable receptacle, as may be desired, secured in its operative position by means of nut bolts 44-44 passing through the arm 42.

With a support constructed and attachable to the frame work of a grain binder as above described, a means is provided for supporting a gas engine 45 of any construction adapted for the purpose of a grain binder between the elevator and traction wheel, and

not only at a point where the balancing of a machine is least interfered with, but in a plane above and away from the transportation trucks 45, for the binder, and at the same time in such a position as to provide for a perfect alinement for transmitting the power of the engine from a sprocket wheel 46 thereon through a chain 47 to the drive shaft 48 of the binder by means of a sprocket 49 Vin addition to that with which such shafts are commonly provided for transmitting the power from the drive shaft through the medium of the sprocket chain 50 to the mechanism of the binder.

Furthermore my invention provides for an engine support which without any change of parts is adapted for attachment to practically every binder now in common use,the frames for whichv accordingly differ in construction, the construction of the support being such that any farmer of ordinary intelligence, without the aid of a mechanic, may conveniently and quickly secure it in its operative position upon his binder with the use of but a single implement, namely a monkey wrench for tightening the nuts on the several bolts.

Inasmuch as the structure as a whole consists of the fewest number of parts consist ent with strength, durability and their various adjustments, my invention provides Va l means for producing supports for engines with minimum cost to the users, and by which farmers desiring to add an engine to the outfit of their binders may do so with a minimum expenditure of money and time.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: t

1. A support for binder engines comprising in combination an upright bar, one or more clamps adapted for removably securing said bar at its ends directly to and against the top and bottom bars and the arch bar of a binder frame, supporting bars respectively projecting from said upright bar and clamp and means for vertically adjusting said upright bar and clamp. j

2. A support for binder engines comprising in combination an upright bar, a clamp, means for securing said bar and clamp respectively to the top and bottom bars, and the arch bar of a binder frame, supporting bars respectively projecting from said upright bar and clamp, and means for vertically adjusting the supporting bars. i

3. A support for binder engines comprising in combination an upright bar, a clamp, means for securing said-bar and clamp respectively to the top and bottom bars and the curved arch bar of a binder frame, supporting bars respectively projecting from l 4f. A support for binder engines comprising in combination an upright bar, means for detachably connecting said bar toward its opposite ends to the top and bottom bars oi a binder frame, a horizontally projecting supporting bar, a brace connecting the outer end of the supporting bar with the lower end of the upright bar, and means for adjusting said supporting bar and brace.

5. A support for binder engines comprising in combination a two part clamp adapted tol embrace the arch bar of a binder, means for detachably securing said clamp thereto,

a supporting bar detachably secured to said clamp, an upright bar, means for detachably 15 supporting said bar from the top and bottom bars of the binder frame, a supporting bar and means for detachably connecting said supporting bar with the upright bar.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set 20 my 'hand and aiXed my seal, this 22nd day of March, A. D. 1916.

HARVEY H. NELSON. [Ls] Witnesses:

MILDRED ELSNER, JNO. G. ELLIOTT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

